Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse

Annotation by Deane Barker tags: roads, cities, economics
URL
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
Format
Narrative
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A good explainer on the phenomenon of induced demand, when creating more of a resource to alleviate a shortage doesn’t work because demand simply increases to match the supply.

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